Minor
['maɪnə] or ['maɪnɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) limited in size or scope; 'a small business'; 'a newspaper with a modest circulation'; 'small-scale plans'; 'a pocket-size country' .
(adj.) inferior in number or size or amount; 'a minor share of the profits'; 'Ursa Minor' .
(adj.) lesser in scope or effect; 'had minor differences'; 'a minor disturbance' .
(adj.) not of legal age; 'minor children' .
(adj.) of a scale or mode; 'the minor keys'; 'in B flat minor' .
(adj.) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization .
(adj.) of lesser importance or stature or rank; 'a minor poet'; 'had a minor part in the play'; 'a minor official'; 'many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen'; 'minor back roads' .
(adj.) of lesser seriousness or danger; 'suffered only minor injuries'; 'some minor flooding'; 'a minor tropical disturbance' .
(adj.) warranting only temporal punishment; 'venial sin' .
(adj.) of the younger of two boys with the same family name; 'Jones minor' .
杜安整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
(n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
(n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
(n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
編輯:娜塔莎
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Less, smaller.[2]. Inferior, subordinate.[3]. Inconsiderable, petty.
校對:卢埃林
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Less, inferior, junior, younger, unimportant
ANT:Major, greater, superior, elder, senior, main, important
卡洛整理
解釋/意思:
adj. smaller: less: inferior in importance degree bulk &c.: inconsiderable: lower: (mus.) smaller by a semitone.—n. a person under age (21 years): (logic) the term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.—n. Mī′norite a Franciscan friar.—adj. belonging to the Franciscans.—n. Minor′ity the state of being under age (also Mī′norship): the smaller of two parts of a number: a number less than half:—opp. to Majority.—Minor canon a canon of inferior grade who assists in performing the daily choral service in a cathedral; Minor mode or scale the mode or scale in music which has the third note only three semitones above the key; Minor premise the premise which contains the minor term; Minor prophets the name given to the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi inclusive.
克利夫顿錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思:
adj. Less objectionable.
迭戈手打
例句/造句/用法:
- I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he remembered seeing me at one of the minor theaters. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It passed by Armenia to Asia Minor, Egypt, and North Africa. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To-day the friction match is turned out by automatic machinery by the million, and constitutes probably the most ubiquitous and useful of all the minor inventions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Well, well, the point is a minor one, and when you have Randall you will probably find no difficulty in securing his accomplice. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I mean any minor point. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Love had come, as the rod of the master-prophet, to swallow up every minor propensity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Many minor improvements have been made in the storage battery, covered by 716 United States patents, most of which relate to cellular construction for holding the mass of red lead in place. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the inquest, and which are worth considering. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- When the minor came to de of age, another tax, called relief, was still due to the superior, which generally amounted likewise to a year's rent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She seems a minor, and must therefore be at our royal disposal in marriage. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Well, a kind of minor king, such as Odysseus might have been. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He is lying thus, apparently forgetful of his newer and minor surprise, when the housekeeper returns, accompanied by her trooper son. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:罗伯塔